Baroque Photostories

See the final products.

Baroque Characteristics

baroque_characteristics2.ppt

Google Art Project

"Great Masters" Photostory Project

Choose a "Great Master" from the 17th century.

• Mr. Mullen has a collection of 17th century painters.
• Chapter 21 of the Humanities textbook is devoted to these painters-- read about them.

Select 3 paintings

• Think and read about them. Use the textbook, the internet, the art books in the classroom, and the library.
• Talk about them.
• Enjoy them, for they are beautiful!
• Find the pictures online and copy them to your folder or flash drive.

Create a Photostory about the paintings.

• Photostory combines pictures, voice, and music into a .wmv file suitable for posting to Youtube, a wiki, or a blog.

The Photostory should contain... (33)

• the paintings
• a voiceover explaining each painting
• some baroque music

The Photostory should teach... (66)

• the painter's signature style-- how do you know this painting is by this artist?
• how the paintings are Baroque
• what prominent imagery, metaphors, conceits, paradoxes, and / or ironies are present in the paintings

Singles or pairs only-- no trios or quartets (or quintets, etc.)

3 pictures

A few minutes

Early Baroque Composers

whose music you can include in your Photostory:

• Monteverdi
• Schutz
• Carissimi
• Corelli
• Lully
• Purcell